The Hanging Rock Iron Region / The Blast Furnaces of Lawrence Co

The Hanging Rock Iron Region

To furnish the needs of the early settlers, then to furnish ordnance for a nation at war, and finally to furnish merchant iron to the steel mills, 100 iron producing blast furnaces were built within these ...

Ironton - Lawrence County Memorial Day Parade

Since 1868, Ironton's annual Memorial Day parade has recognized those in Lawrence County who died while defending our country's freedom. This was the same year in which the Grand Army of the Republic established May 30 as Decoration Day. Originally ...

Many Came by Handcart

Between June 9, 1856, and July 6, 1860, ten separate Handcart Companies left Iowa

City, Iowa, or Florence, Nebraska to their land of Zion in the Utah Territory. There were

653 handcarts and 50 wagons.

Nearly 3,000 souls, some with babes in arms, ...

The Underground Railroad in Pike County

Historic Underground Railroad Site

An Elm Grove abolitionist maintained a lonely Underground Railroad station where he provided safety for escaping enslaved persons. These fugitives were attempting to travel the unfriendly route from Houston Hollow in Scioto County to safe places in ...

Historic Kolob Mountain

Kolob

by Owen Sanders

When lassitude tugs at your body

and robs you of zest to exist

come with me to Kolob

and walk through the mild morning mist

Huddle at dawn on a hillside

and scan the green valley below;

Listen to snapping and crackle of twigs

and ...

Pioneer Gratitude

Claron Bradshaw Family

When Claron Bradshaw was asked by the Heritage Park Foundation Committee if he would sponsor the expense of casting the “Pioneer Gratitude” statue in bronze and placing it on the monument in the park, he responded –

“I Appreciate ...

Survival in Utah’s Dixie

The warm comfortable productive climate in the sheltered valleys along the meandering Rio Virgin and its lower tributaries in Washington County became known as "Utah's Dixie".

The rugged pioneer colonizers and their descendants are known as "Dixieites" and the stalwart men ...

Hurricane Canal

Utah Historic Site

The construction of the Hurricane Canal is one of Utah's proudest stories of pioneer determination. This canal, built completely by hand, opened the Hurricane Bench to farming and the establishment of the town of Hurricane.

In 1893 two local ...

Pioneer Trails

Two Important Pioneer Trails Lie to the South of Here

Historic Temple Trail

The Temple Trail which has two parts, was used during the years 1874-1876 to bring lumber by ox-team from two sawmills at Nixon Springs on the south face of ...

Site of Rose Hill -- 1794

The home of Judge Joseph N. Whitner, Anderson County's founding father, was located at the crest of this will. It stood until recent years when it was torn down. Judge Whitner was a South Carolina House of Representative from Pendleton ...